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GIVEAWAY: 3 copies of A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve

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Another great giveaway for you all! I’ve got 3 copies of A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve up for grabs courtesy of Valerie with Hachette Book Group. I have read many of Anita Shreve’s books and have read this one as well (my review here). While not one of my favorites, it was still good. I do think that there is a multitude of topics for a book club to ponder on in this novel from marriage and fidelity to forgiveness – Hachette Book Group has even provided a Reading Group Guide to help you along.

About the Book

Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn’t know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband.

A British couple invites the newlyweds to join on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever.

A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy, and the elusive nature of forgiveness. With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, Anita Shreve transports us to the exotic panoramas of Africa and into the core of our most intimate relationships.

About the Author

ANITA SHREVE began writing fiction while working as a high school teacher. Although one of her first published stories, “Past the Island, Drifting,” was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1975, Shreve felt she couldn’t make a living as a fiction writer so she became a journalist. She traveled to Africa, and spent three years in Kenya, writing articles that appeared in magazines such as Quest, US, and Newsweek. Back in the United States, she turned to raising her children and writing freelance articles for magazines. Shreve later expanded two of these articles — both published in the New York Times Magazine — into the nonfiction books Remaking Motherhood and Women Together, Women Alone. At the same time Shreve also began working on her first novel, Eden Close. With its publication in 1989, she gave up journalism for writing fiction full time, thrilled, as she says, with “the rush of freedom that I could make it up.”

Since Eden Close Anita Shreve has written eleven other novels: Strange Fits of Passion, Where or When, Resistance, The Weight of Water, The Pilot’s Wife, Fortune’s Rocks, The Last Time They Met, Sea Glass, All He Ever Wanted, Light on Snow, A Wedding in December and, most recently, Body Surfing. In 1998 Shreve received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction.

Check out Anita Shreve discussing A Change in Altitude

GIVEAWAY DETAILS

I have 3 copies of A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve up for giveaway. To enter…

  • For 1 entry leave me a comment with a way to contact you.
  • For 2 entries follow my blog. If you already do, thanks and let me know in your comment.
  • For 3 entries, blog or tweet this giveaway.

This giveaway is open to US & Canadian residents only (no PO boxes) as the books will ship to the winners directly from the publisher. I will draw for the winners on Sunday, May 30, 2010. Good luck to you all!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  3. I'd love to be entered for the Anita Shreve giveaway. Count me in please.

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  8. Please count me in. Thanks for the giveaway. I love Anita Shreve.

    +2 I am a follower.

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  9. This is not my usual reading genre, but I've heard good things about this novel, and it sounds like something a friend would really enjoy. Thanks for the giveaway.

    I am a follower (Google Reader)
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  10. I haven't read Anita Shreve before…but this sounds like a interesting read!!!

    Thanks for the contest.

    I am a follower in Google Reader.

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  11. Hi Dar,

    Have had my eye on this book for ages!!
    I follow…I will be tweeting.
    Thanks for hosting the giveaway!

    Geri

  12. Would love a chance to win this for a friend who loves Shreve. Please enter me!!

    zibilee(at)figearo(dot)net

    I am also a follower of your blog!

  14. This one looks interesting. Please count me in. I am a follower.

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  15. I love Anita Shreve, such a talented author! Thanks for the chance into this giveaway.

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  18. I feel greedy entering another giveaway, but I can't help myself. This book has been on my wish list since I first heard about it. Thanks for hosting the giveaway, Dar!

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  23. I would enjoy reading this.

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  24. I've been wanting to read this book! I like Anita Shreve's writing style.

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  28. I've been meaning to read Anita Shreve for a long time. I already follow your blog.

  30. I love Anita Shreve; thanks for hosting the giveaway!
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    +1 I'm a follower!

  31. Please enter my name in the giveaway for the book. Thanks!

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  32. Please enter me for this one.

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  33. This is a new author for me… and I'd love to be included in the drawing.

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  39. Sounds great!! Thanks for the giveaway!!

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  41. I've heard good things about this one and I usually enjoy Anita Shreve so please count me in!

    I'm a follower

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  49. Lovely giveaway thank you!

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    I am a follower

  55. I've been looking forward to this book by A. Shreve. I like the concept of the book and like the time period, the 70's. Can't wait to read it.
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  57. Please enter me in your giveaway. This sounds like a book I would enjoy. Thank you!

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  58. Would love a chance to enter. I'm a new follower.

    Thanks!

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  59. I haven’t read any of this author’s books, but your review sounds like a book that I would take pleasure in reading. Thanks you so much for hosting this giveaway.

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  60. I would like to have a shot at winning this book.

    Thanks for the giveaway.

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    -arch

  61. I have really been wanting to read this book. Please enter me.

    Marie
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  68. Am new to your blog, love it!!! Have read all of Anita Shreve's other books and have liked each one for it's own uniqueness. Am looking forward to reading Peeking Between the Pages

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  69. Thanks for the giveaway – I'd love to read this book!
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